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Into Europe

Sir: If a casual reader may voice an opinion, I should like to endorse Mr Partridge's remarks (December 2). Who, listening to Mr John Davies's statement of his "passionate commitment" to Europe (in a BBC interview), could doubt that this was " emotional " rather than "logical " — yet none the worse for so being? Winston Churchill's decision to fight on in 1940 was surely " emotional " more than " logical ". How many people today, including the editor of the Times, would prefer him to have chosen logic?